As fantastic as the sewing is, the one thing that never gets enough recognition is Bernadette Banner's superb editing. The same level of loving attention to detail is evident in the construction of each video as in the projects that they document and sometimes I just like to watch them because they're so beautifully put together. What could be a simplistic tutorial style video full of smash cuts and sped up footage has a wonderful languid, almost meditative pace, and crafts a narrative around the creation of the pieces with an immaculate sense of timing.
I teach a certain amount of optics in various classes at a university. From now on, I am going to use the word "floofs" to describe surface roughness that interacts directionally with light. It rolls off the tongue more easily than "bidirectional reflectance function".
As I watch this I have 4 tiny witch hats that are definitely not a result of watching your first witch bonnet video everyday for a week. No sir. I am more than ever in need of a hat for every occasion- and specifically a bonnet.
I'm in for this but I'll be in more modern clothes because I don't sew at all, but I'll bring my cross stitch and enjoy the lovely other works everyone else is making.
I agree, I actually pointed her vlogg out to a friend who is interested in beginning her own branding for her business (nothing to do with sewing) as an example.
Indeed! I came to Bernadette for the sewing, costuming, historical methods, and inimitable charm but I am completely slain by the film making. I love her artistry. Ahhhhhh! Oh please, somebody give her a contract to direct the next iteration of Jane Eyre! The close ups! The Boke! The landscapes! I die! Oh, the music she would find.....
@@jls4382 I will be personally offended if there ever will be a new version of Jane Eyre where Bernadette does NOT either design the costumes, direct the move or play Jane. She would do an excellent job it and would become my most favourite movie!
@@jls4382 Oh..lol. I first found her, late one evening & at the time had never even heard of historical sewing. I just felt oddly drawn to click on her video. It was one of her first videos & she was chattering like a magpie. I wasn't sure I had the energy to watch & kept going wtf..? but in an amused way you know? Not a bad way. And I was like wow, this gal is really brave! And she seemed just SO enthused & passionate, so I kept watching, though sometimes I had to slow her audio feed down. So I'd say, I started watching because I was just so thrilled to find someone who was/is so passionate about something. (It had been ages since I'd met anyone in person who was passionate about Anything frankly) Then after awhile I started getting hooked & watching other historical sewists. And I was just amazed at how fast she was changing her branding, persona, or whatever its called. She's clearly really intelligent. I'd been sewing by hand for several years but her videos were a gateway drug to watching other sewists in the historical genre & now I'm working on a few historybounding projects.
I don't think one can properly describe a Bernadette. They're just them. You kind of have to just accept it. It's like accepting the fact that you cannot define a meter without knowing what a light-year is, and you cannot define a light-year without knowing what a meter is... And most of our measurements are based off of being able to define a meter.
Datura and Henbane were some of the herbs taken in small (safe) portions to assist in "flying" and "astral travel", so good luck getting your broom off the ground without it or something simmilar. See: --'The Witches Ointment' Thomas Hatsis --'Veneficium' Daniel' A. Schulke
I'm not flying anywhere, but i would really like to join the witches ride... so now I just need to find a way to acquire an iceland trained horse 'til dawn.
Introduced my 7yo son to Bernadette with this video. His comments: "I love that she did the sound of the scissors and the old sewing machine. It sounds very cool." Huzzah for videos that can be appreciated by a wide audience!
Why would someone dislike this? Are they just jealous that they don't have a tiny witch hat? They knew what they were clicking on- the title is perfectly clear, so why?
The study of Floof Dynamics would be in the Physics department with a side helping of Engineering; but the use and structure would fall under Materials Sciences. If I could write a defendable dissertation on the effects of Hydrogen inclusions in certain metals due to welding then Bernadette could easily write one on the exotic floof particles and their interaction with needle and thread.
Bernadette: Mentions there’s a website that does all of the horrible hat math for me Me: HALLELUJAH!!! I may make calculated decisions, but I’m bad at math
I think there is a really low-tech no-math way of doing this without an online calculator. Just take a piece of string the length of the tip of the hat. hold one side of the string down (or pin it in place or something) and with a pencil at the other end start drawing an arc using the length of the string as a guide (like you're going to draw a circle around the pinned down end of the string). Just draw a generous arc, and then measure along the edge until length of arc = size of brim. Draw some straight lines to the pinned end of the string and done.
The great thing is that slowly we are getting all brave enogh to wear whatever we please and at the same time, people is getting more and mor forgiving to what others wear because "we barely go out, we can have a little fun with it" I love that
When I was in college we had a millinary department. Our teacher Ms. Spenza had acquired many old french wooden hat forms for steaming wool hats into shapes or even straw hat bodies. By far though the most interesting of her machines was one that had a space for wire to be threaded through instead of thread. With this machine you could sew wire into the edge of the brim of any brimmed hat. It was a great way to make wide brim hats where the brims stood out and you wanted them to stand out straight. You might still use interfacing inside and across the brim but that wire on the edge really stiffened things up beautifully.
I have pulled out my cape that I made nigh on 15 years ago in sewing class in school and then never used again because I allowed my perceived thoughts on how others would judge me stop me. No longer am I stopped, inspired by you I proudly wear my black cape and have even bought a dark purple one second hand! Cold and dreary times ahead, I am prepared.
Honestly "stop giving a crap and issues regarding preconceived notions about how youwere taught society views you just melt away" people would probs be like "cool cape"
Well, now I'm jealous. I too made a lovely cape in high school, albeit more Rivendell than Hogwarts in style. But alas, I apparently lost my mind and donated it at some point in the last many years. So much regret
@@bernadettebanner Hey Bernadette, I'm a musician and would like to give you some of my music to use in your videos. Do you have a business email I can send this to for your consideration? You inspire me so much in my life and have empowered me to take control of my wardrobe which helped me take charge of my life and I want to give back to you, using my skills to maybe improve your life like you have mine, or at least improve your day.
@@crystalkirlia4553 her business email is in the video description, and her Instagram bio, I can't remember it exactly but it's the one that has the word "lighthouse" in it. And I think your idea is exactly what "business inquiries only pls" is meant for. Good luck, and I hope we get to hear your music soon 😊
The honest answer? Because trends started changing and the headmasters/principals (and remember headmasters/principals were all men at the time) decided that shorter skirts and sheerer blouses were 'fashionable' and they were 'keeping up with the times' by allowing women to wear 'what they wanted' when all they were doing were being pervs. Notice how places with school uniforms have only recently allowed males to wear shorts while above the knee skirts have been in place for ages? And there's your reason. Pervs.
Or better yet; why not as every day clothes? No more searching for that one outfit that fits, or that jacket that fits comfortably over your layers of sweaters in winter. Just wear a robe. No more worries about gaining or losing weight, because a robe will fit. No more worrying about maternity clothes when it's needed and what to do with them when they're not, because you can always wear that robe. (Btw, thinking of the robe as clothes in the HP book sense when it was implied that that was all they wore beyond underwear, whereas the movies added regular uniform clothes underneath the robe and used the robe in place of a uniform blazer) Life could be simpler if we let it. (Sigh)
@@jtn2002 if people can beat the heat in layers in the desert (or other such roasting places) I'm sure you could too. (Also layers have been proven to keep you cooler than baring as much legal skin as you can, because it keeps the sun from your skin and allows the heat to dissipate rather than be absorbed)
I will happily ride at dawn, dusk or indeed 'the witching hour', but require further assistance vis-a-vis destination and what exactly I should be riding on. I'd hate to let the side down by turning up on the bus if everyone else had managed to furnish themselves with actual flying broomsticks...
As a larper, I can say with confidence that my huge felted wool witch hat is the most immediately recognizable and most complimented-upon part of my garb wardrobe. So yes, make witch hats in vogue, everyone loves them.
@@meacadwell My seam ripper never had a light, but Bernadette is even lower tech. She lifts the stitch with a pin, snips it with a scissors, and pulls it out. Imagine the tedium of doing that over yards of fabric. I'd probably go cross-eyed.
The snip of the scissors at 1:36 was amazingly timed, filmed and satisfying. I know you've mentioned that you've been doing courses on cinematography and the like, and I can see how the effort and attention to detail is paying off for you ☺
Bernadette, you are too much!! I adore your taste in fabrics, your impeccable stitching, and your colorful narrations ( perfect for going nowhere and meeting no one...insane!!!) OMG!! We watch your videos over and over!!
Dear Bernadette: I'm a musician and would like to give you some music that I've written to you to use in your videos. I am such a fan of your work and you inspire me so much in my life. Do you have a business email that I can send this to for your consideration?
This is perfect winter hat! I absolutely adore that it matches with your cape, and let's not forget, the Bernadette oxfords, I see a pattern here :) With a walking skirt it will look like a beautiful outfit.
I finally understand the dozens of garments in my life I spent so much time in petting myself in an upwards direction and wondering why anyone would think the wearer would rather pet themself in such a fashion - they didn’t want them to be shiny. FOOLS! I long to be SHINY as well as soft!!!
You've really made the aesthetics of the video feel very autumnal. I think your Singer is "clunking" which, should it be true and you care, may be the rubber bushing between the finger of the hand crank and the fly wheel. It can be replaced or left in place and covered with leather or fabric and just needs to wrap around it to prevent some of the slop in the mechanism that occurs when the speed of the hand crank varies.
@@penelopefp I'm not a sewing machine whisperer 😂 Entirely by fluke I think I recognise the sound from my own 1910 Singer. There was something off about "chatter-chatter-chatter-clunk". Afterall, the engineering of these older machines is so beautifully functional and elogant one wouldn't expect such an off-putting sound. That said, if you want me to listen to your machine, I'm all ears!
Oh myyyy... that hand turned machine!!!! What a relic piece of history! And candelabra lights... both makes the perfect setting for the craftsman of this witch hat that came out wonderful. “We ride at dawn friends!” Oh yaaaa! 🧹
Hats are an excellent fashion accessory. When my grandmothers were young, the wearing of hats as everyday fashion was very much a thing. We need to bring this back. I shall begin by making myself a Witchy Hat, a la Bernadette.
@@Luubelaar I know they had such lovely hats (& clothing) back in the 40's & 50's. I always wear a hat whenever I go out in the summertime. I've got a natural olive complexion but in the summer's here in Australia are so bad that. I can get a nasty sunburn in the 5 minutes it takes me to walk down to the mail box & back. I'd love to see Bernadette make a historical summer hat. But she's headed into the wrong season for that in NYC. Oh well maybe next summer........
When one is allergic to lanolin, one learns to LIKE crushed velvet, or like to be a slave to the iron and velvet board. Personally, I vote the crushed velvet. And I love the description and physics of floof.
This hat is beautiful and absolutely fashionable. I love the snippy snippy sounds of the shears and the churning sounds of the machine. They’re quite soothing. Nothing can compare to the adorable little floofykins showing his precious face in the video, however.
I got a cheap sewing machine to make Halloween costumes, hated the foot peddle, so I moved it by hand. After a week I gave up and ordered an actual hand crank sewing machine from 1879* from Etsy and it arrives tomorrow 😍 You've inspired me so much I want to make all my own clothes *edit from previous date 1910s.
Hmmm. I have a newish machine which has a foot pedal but I have never used it. I prefer to set the machine at it's slowest and use the Start/Stop button. I, when I was a girl, used my mother's treadle singer. My Grandmother had a hand wheel one but I hated it as I didn't have both hands to deal with whatever I was sewing. I wouldn't go back. The only treadling I do now is on my spinning wheel, nice and slow and relaxing. A few years ago I could have bought one of those old sewing machines for £15 or even less but people seem to be charging ridiculous amounts for them now. I must go back to the market where I saw them. Maybe I could make a profit?!!
Your needlework is, of course, fantastic, but I wanted to compliment you on your editing. The way you timed your background music to end just as your scissors went SNIP! Impeccable!
This video never gets old. I am watching it for the sixth or seventh time and enjoying it again on multiple levels. Thank you, Bernadette, for this lovely time away from the difficulties of the world, and the instruction to make such a lovely and magical hat!
"We ride at dawn, friends." Best line ever. Love your videos; the editing is exemplary, the staging divine and your touches of humor ever surprising moments. Thanks so much for posting!
I was wondering how you got such a non-standard color/shape of a beeswax block for your threads! Clever, clever witchling!! I now need one of these hats on my life. Or twenty. Something like that.
If you look on SCUBA diving website for beeswax they come in little blocks like that. We use them to wax our drysuit zips and they're often cheap. A lot of them are yellow but I've seem paler ones too.
I got the sudden urge recently to buy a red cardigan and I managed to get hold of a really nice one secondhand, and when I was wearing it yesterday I realised the urge came from seeing you wearing one!
Bernadette has, I am convinced, single-handedly kept me both sane and human during these times of pestilence. These videos are the single most soothing and entertaining things that I have come across and I am immensely grateful for this.
I find your projects so inspiring, your videos aren’t just keeping me happy during quarantine, I’ve even started a sewing journey of my own! I’ve always wanted to make my own clothes because my style is so different from what can be found in the marketplace, and your videos have given me the confidence to give sewing a shot. Thank you so much Bernadette!
You and me both. Without these videos, I wouldn't have known where to start and I'd probably still not be doing more than button and hems. Since June, I've made 3 skirts and am now working on my 2nd pair of pyjamas. (Among other things.) But I must put my sewing away once I've finished this pair. The flat looks a complete mess and I really need to get some housework done instead. Give it a go - you've got little to lose and a whole lot to gain. Start simple, watch loads of how to videos and you'll soon be surprising yourself with what you can make for yourself.
Another beautiful result! It suits you down to the ground. Sidenote: it delighted me to see that you save the beeswax candle overspill (is that even a word? Eh). Fiendishly useful stuff, which I also use for my beadweaving thread. 'Waste not, want not' is something I feel to the marrow of my bones.
Best hat design! I love the small brim, and tie back ear flaps. Keeping the true cone is what amplifies. Many witch hats popularized by a consumer market twist or bend the cone. Nice design witch!
Those wee bird snips that literally everyone seems to have..... Surprised everyone didn't hear my delighted squeee when I found those wee bird snips shaped (and colored) like a flamingo👍
And yet again, Bernadette Banner is blessing the Internet with another piece of pure ~ aesthetic ~ education, a best of the vocabulary of the beautiful English language und just overall good old witchy vibes. Let's bless her in return.
bernadette i don;t know if you realised i needed this because i was feeling so angry and then watched this and immediately calmed right down so thank you for calming me down enough to not do anything rash.
Not to be dramatic, but if my witch hat isn't wide brimmed and slouchy enough that you can tell at a glance I'll be showing up to the seance 15min late with starbucks then *what* is the *point* ? Loving your academic vibe tho - your hats are so cute!! 🥰 Great job!
Oh, you want a broad brim? Please sew this broad-brimmed pattern with slight conical slope (but add Bernadette’s pointy top) and post pictures! 🥺 I’m out of interfacing and need to live vicariously. ruclips.net/video/x4S5zNBGphc/видео.html
Since we’re all comfortably insane from the isolation by now, the fact that many of us have occupied our time with sewing projects made from what we had on hand or ordered online, this should be a very colourful motley crew.
Rhonda Crosswhite, I have a meme I love using that says, “When you find people who not only tolerate your quirks, but celebrate them with glad cries of ‘Me too!’, be sure to cherish them. Because those weirdos are your tribe.” I think we make a pretty cool tribe.
Go for it!! I'm debating just which other clothes I need, bc I feel like this would look weird with a bulky jack Wolfskin jacket.. guess i finally need to make the ADCape?
I've realized that I rarely I comment on youtube videos because I think of the comment section of any youtube channel as a horrid, wretched place. No matter how delightful and positive the video is. It would seem that my mindset has, thus far, prevented me from saying positive things in the comments of lovely videos that brought me a good bit of joy. So I shall endeavor to change that poor habit today, by leaving a nice yet entirely truthful comment. This video was delightful, as are all of your videos Bernadette. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this process with us, and lifting my spirits in these dark times. I might even actually try to make a hat like this for myself though- with quarantine depression being what it is- I cannot promise anything.
Sometimes I try to push through and just make a start and sometimes I can get enough enthusiasm going to finish projects. I’m in that process now. This epidemic HAS been a sad time for many, including me... I feel for you.
Perhaps make a paper version first ? Not sewn, just glued ? Or use tabs and that way if it comes out well, & you are happy with the fit, you can use it to trace out on cloth ?!
You have a way of captivating an audience. Particularly me! I said to myself. I wasn’t going to watch the whole video. Generally I’m always double tapping videos to move it along. But not with your videos. I can honestly watch you work all day I think. Thank you for making your content. Honestly it’s a pleasure to watch! I love the touch with the candles. Showing us that this was truly a labour of love. Thank you.
"We are all comfortably insane now." Omg yes.
A truer sentence has never before been uttered.
I had to go back and make sure I heard that correctly and then I couldn’t stop laughing! 😂😂😂
I will be getting a sound byte of this sentence, and I will be using it everywhere. Because it is a mood and I am here for it.
The catch all phrase of 2020.
Think that's my new catchphrase.
Describing velvet pile as floofs is my absolute favorite thing today 😍
Same! Like dust bunnies, but crafter edition
The physique of floof by Bernadette Banner 😉 first tome.
Right?!
Piles and Naps no longer exist. Everything is Floofs.
Bernadette Banner Let us worship the
*F L O O F*
As fantastic as the sewing is, the one thing that never gets enough recognition is Bernadette Banner's superb editing. The same level of loving attention to detail is evident in the construction of each video as in the projects that they document and sometimes I just like to watch them because they're so beautifully put together. What could be a simplistic tutorial style video full of smash cuts and sped up footage has a wonderful languid, almost meditative pace, and crafts a narrative around the creation of the pieces with an immaculate sense of timing.
I agree! Lovely pace, beautiful images, soothing sounds... Nice!
I was thinking the same when I watched, but not in such eloquent words as you used.
I love that about her videos!
You have to watch with her captions! She adds little quips and comments and descriptions. It makes it even better
@@marissabruno4958 satisfying fabric cutting. asmr sewing noises. wee snip.
I teach a certain amount of optics in various classes at a university. From now on, I am going to use the word "floofs" to describe surface roughness that interacts directionally with light. It rolls off the tongue more easily than "bidirectional reflectance function".
So how’s that going?
I love it. ☺👍
Did anyone else feel a rush of motivation and excitement when she said, "we ride at dawn, friends"?
*Cackle*
Yes but I'm also really glad dawn is like 8:20 now where I live cuz falling asleep on the broomstick is not my prefered way of riding hahaha
“perfect for going on a stroll to absolutely no-where and meeting up with absolutely no one!” hhghdsshdssff i’m dying
me in a nutshell
Me buying vintage clothing on Depop.
That describes my entire social life during these plague times
I know she is too much..
Tell me again what it was like when we could meet up with people? I've forgotten what it was like....
Dawn seems awfully early, can we ride at lunchtime? Or maybe dusk... :D
Jalea Ward I vote for dusk!
Dusk works for me!
Definitely dusk
Also putting my ballot in for dusk!
Ok, The People say dusk; it's spookier that way anyway. 😎
As I watch this I have 4 tiny witch hats that are definitely not a result of watching your first witch bonnet video everyday for a week. No sir.
I am more than ever in need of a hat for every occasion- and specifically a bonnet.
Everyone needs a LBH - Little Black Hat. 🧙♀️
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 trademark that :P
@@withcharmtospare ROTFLMAO! 🤣 I just might. 😝
If you mention bonnet with such passion, then I guess you've also watched Micarah ;)
Hand-turned machine sewing small black witchy hat by candelabra light.
That’s all anyone needs to know.
Bernadette: *announces she wears the plaid hat everywhere, and must therefore have one in black*
Me: "This logic is sound."
SUPER CUTE HAT! :D
I'd love one.Beautifully done!!!A classic.
My personal favorite reaction in this case is "This checks out"
Would it be safe to hazard a guess that we ride at dawn with our witch hats, pirate shirts and AD capes donned for history, sewing and shenanigans?
yes. 😎
I hope so.
I'm in for this but I'll be in more modern clothes because I don't sew at all, but I'll bring my cross stitch and enjoy the lovely other works everyone else is making.
Count me in 100%
@Jules Herbert Yes! We will make sure all witches are decked out to their prefence.
Not to be dramatic but I would die for this mystical woman
who wouldn't
@@cherubp3447 Seriously. Who wouldn't?
Several times over the course of this 11 minute video "marry me" popped into my brain
I SAW 'ER FIRST!
@@doktorscottdiabolical No I did. 🤣🤣
Your cinematography practice and improvements show and look positively splendid, much like your hat.
I agree, I actually pointed her vlogg out to a friend who is interested in beginning her own branding for her business (nothing to do with sewing) as an example.
Indeed! I came to Bernadette for the sewing, costuming, historical methods, and inimitable charm but I am completely slain by the film making. I love her artistry. Ahhhhhh! Oh please, somebody give her a contract to direct the next iteration of Jane Eyre! The close ups! The Boke! The landscapes! I die! Oh, the music she would find.....
It all looks and sounds so cinematic. And the New York skyline backdrop always adds this peculiar "out of time" vibe to the proceedings.
@@jls4382 I will be personally offended if there ever will be a new version of Jane Eyre where Bernadette does NOT either design the costumes, direct the move or play Jane. She would do an excellent job it and would become my most favourite movie!
@@jls4382 Oh..lol. I first found her, late one evening & at the time had never even heard of historical sewing. I just felt oddly drawn to click on her video. It was one of her first videos & she was chattering like a magpie. I wasn't sure I had the energy to watch & kept going wtf..? but in an amused way you know? Not a bad way. And I was like wow, this gal is really brave! And she seemed just SO enthused & passionate, so I kept watching, though sometimes I had to slow her audio feed down. So I'd say, I started watching because I was just so thrilled to find someone who was/is so passionate about something. (It had been ages since I'd met anyone in person who was passionate about Anything frankly) Then after awhile I started getting hooked & watching other historical sewists. And I was just amazed at how fast she was changing her branding, persona, or whatever its called. She's clearly really intelligent. I'd been sewing by hand for several years but her videos were a gateway drug to watching other sewists in the historical genre & now I'm working on a few historybounding projects.
Please consider designing a whole witch-casual clothing line, that'd be so perfect.
"We are all comfortably insane now." the commentary of the last 30 seconds of this video is so absolutely perfect lol.
i have said this before and will say it again: she is exactly what i imagine younger professor McGonagall would look like
Whomsoever postulated that she is NOT Minerva in the flesh!? You know, because time travel.
Jesus loves you!
I think you're in the wrong RUclipsr's comment section, Random Person Who Fervently Believes In A Sky Captain.
"floofs go NOMMMM,
floofs go weeeee" - Housemate, MPhys, 2020 when discussing velvet pile
You know, that makes perfect sense. . . (but only if the "whee" is the shiny pile)
Margaret Karaba
Definitely. “NOMMMM” is, after all, the pile absorbing the light.
YES. You are all correct. This is now my understanding of physics.
if “because ~✨fashion✨~” doesn’t describe bernadette, then what does?
Bernadette ✨Fashion✨
Rachel ✨Aesthetics✨
Karolina ✨Memes✨
“because ~✨historical accuracy✨~”
I don't think one can properly describe a Bernadette. They're just them. You kind of have to just accept it. It's like accepting the fact that you cannot define a meter without knowing what a light-year is, and you cannot define a light-year without knowing what a meter is... And most of our measurements are based off of being able to define a meter.
Mysterious floofy fashion!
Tea, small floofy pigs, books, and ✨ fashion ✨
"We ride at dawn friends"
Me: I'll get my broom
Me too !!! Hahahaha, let’s fly away!
Am I too late? Well I'm here anyway 🧹
Bernadette: "We ride at dawn"
Me: [fetches wand, summons the cat, does preflight inspection of broom] 🪄🐈⬛🧹🧙🏻♀️
Me : * PLAYS THE HARRY POTTER THEME *
Datura and Henbane were some of the herbs taken in small (safe) portions to assist in "flying" and "astral travel", so good luck getting your broom off the ground without it or something simmilar. See:
--'The Witches Ointment' Thomas Hatsis
--'Veneficium' Daniel' A. Schulke
I'm not flying anywhere, but i would really like to join the witches ride... so now I just need to find a way to acquire an iceland trained horse 'til dawn.
Hope you've got your herbs and elixirs with you
@James Lee Datura is a ride! Don’t even joke with it.
"We ride at dawn."
I've been having a lot of bad days. Today is one of them. This made me laugh. I needed that.
Hold on! I wish you the best! With love from the Netherlands.
ditto.
"Simple, understated, everyday witchery" oh look its a four word description of Bernadette's style!!
Introduced my 7yo son to Bernadette with this video. His comments: "I love that she did the sound of the scissors and the old sewing machine. It sounds very cool." Huzzah for videos that can be appreciated by a wide audience!
Why would someone dislike this? Are they just jealous that they don't have a tiny witch hat? They knew what they were clicking on- the title is perfectly clear, so why?
I feel like this woman knows every word in the dictionary...
I truly wouldn't be surprised if she did.
@@junecampbell2152 Neither would I
Me too....and she uses them too! That is a gift !
I agree completely, she knows all the words and has chosen Floofs.
University course idea: Floof physics
It'd be engineering. Materials Science
Learning about various weaves is indeed part of material science.
The study of Floof Dynamics would be in the Physics department with a side helping of Engineering; but the use and structure would fall under Materials Sciences. If I could write a defendable dissertation on the effects of Hydrogen inclusions in certain metals due to welding then Bernadette could easily write one on the exotic floof particles and their interaction with needle and thread.
Aaaaand now I wonder whether the velvet floof could be used to display certain statistical algorithms, Markov Chains in particular :D
I hereby enrol.
Bernadette: Mentions there’s a website that does all of the horrible hat math for me
Me: HALLELUJAH!!! I may make calculated decisions, but I’m bad at math
I think there is a really low-tech no-math way of doing this without an online calculator. Just take a piece of string the length of the tip of the hat. hold one side of the string down (or pin it in place or something) and with a pencil at the other end start drawing an arc using the length of the string as a guide (like you're going to draw a circle around the pinned down end of the string). Just draw a generous arc, and then measure along the edge until length of arc = size of brim. Draw some straight lines to the pinned end of the string and done.
Not all calculations are mathematical...
maggPi Prime Truth...
ROTFLMAO! 🤣 🙌👏👍
"Horrible hat math" sounds like an exclamation of despair from Whacky Races or something and I love it
The great thing is that slowly we are getting all brave enogh to wear whatever we please and at the same time, people is getting more and mor forgiving to what others wear because "we barely go out, we can have a little fun with it" I love that
When I was in college we had a millinary department. Our teacher Ms. Spenza had acquired many old french wooden hat forms for steaming wool hats into shapes or even straw hat bodies. By far though the most interesting of her machines was one that had a space for wire to be threaded through instead of thread. With this machine you could sew wire into the edge of the brim of any brimmed hat. It was a great way to make wide brim hats where the brims stood out and you wanted them to stand out straight. You might still use interfacing inside and across the brim but that wire on the edge really stiffened things up beautifully.
her smile is so nice it makes me happy
I have pulled out my cape that I made nigh on 15 years ago in sewing class in school and then never used again because I allowed my perceived thoughts on how others would judge me stop me. No longer am I stopped, inspired by you I proudly wear my black cape and have even bought a dark purple one second hand! Cold and dreary times ahead, I am prepared.
Honestly "stop giving a crap and issues regarding preconceived notions about how youwere taught society views you just melt away" people would probs be like "cool cape"
I would love to see people out and about with a cape!
@@jeanblaaa Life is just so much more fun when you have a cape on, especially on a foggy night!
Well, now I'm jealous. I too made a lovely cape in high school, albeit more Rivendell than Hogwarts in style. But alas, I apparently lost my mind and donated it at some point in the last many years. So much regret
"The Physics of Velvet Floofs" should be taught in school.
Just 'member that it's a good idea to take Calculus first....or was that Differential Equations...or both....Velvet is just 'that way'.
I believe you can take VFP (Velvet Floofs Physics) in your third year at Hogwarts as an elective.
@@lizackermann2383 Wasn't it fourth year?
Along with "Functions and Theories of Fashion Throughout History"
@@lizackermann2383 I think you meant Ilvermorny in 4th year
5:25 - this shot's timing with the music is 😍😍
I may or may not have been *unreasonably* proud of that one.
@@bernadettebanner I was going to ask if this was what you were referring to in your Instagram stories. If so... *chef's kiss* indeed! ❤
@@bernadettebanner
Hey Bernadette, I'm a musician and would like to give you some of my music to use in your videos. Do you have a business email I can send this to for your consideration? You inspire me so much in my life and have empowered me to take control of my wardrobe which helped me take charge of my life and I want to give back to you, using my skills to maybe improve your life like you have mine, or at least improve your day.
@@crystalkirlia4553 her business email is in the video description, and her Instagram bio, I can't remember it exactly but it's the one that has the word "lighthouse" in it. And I think your idea is exactly what "business inquiries only pls" is meant for. Good luck, and I hope we get to hear your music soon 😊
I noticed this too, loved it 😁
I would love to see Bernadette use some of her gorgeous ribbon as the inspiration/ main focus of a project! I never see her use them nearly enough
That black embroidered trim is gorgeous 😍 Bernadette!
i love how you explained the velvet floofs, talking very calmly and elegant but using the word floof. perfection. 10/10.
Real Question: why don't we wear robes as real school uniforms? They're cute and functional? Please I just want to look like a Harry Potter character
The honest answer? Because trends started changing and the headmasters/principals (and remember headmasters/principals were all men at the time) decided that shorter skirts and sheerer blouses were 'fashionable' and they were 'keeping up with the times' by allowing women to wear 'what they wanted' when all they were doing were being pervs. Notice how places with school uniforms have only recently allowed males to wear shorts while above the knee skirts have been in place for ages? And there's your reason. Pervs.
Or better yet; why not as every day clothes? No more searching for that one outfit that fits, or that jacket that fits comfortably over your layers of sweaters in winter. Just wear a robe. No more worries about gaining or losing weight, because a robe will fit. No more worrying about maternity clothes when it's needed and what to do with them when they're not, because you can always wear that robe.
(Btw, thinking of the robe as clothes in the HP book sense when it was implied that that was all they wore beyond underwear, whereas the movies added regular uniform clothes underneath the robe and used the robe in place of a uniform blazer)
Life could be simpler if we let it. (Sigh)
Not functional in Florida summer, sadly.
@@jtn2002 if people can beat the heat in layers in the desert (or other such roasting places) I'm sure you could too. (Also layers have been proven to keep you cooler than baring as much legal skin as you can, because it keeps the sun from your skin and allows the heat to dissipate rather than be absorbed)
Look up the traditional university clothes in Portugal, Coimbra (my alma mater), Lisbon and Oporto especially, still in use today :p
I will happily ride at dawn, dusk or indeed 'the witching hour', but require further assistance vis-a-vis destination and what exactly I should be riding on. I'd hate to let the side down by turning up on the bus if everyone else had managed to furnish themselves with actual flying broomsticks...
❤❤❤
I think the Knight Bus is generally acceptable in witchly circles.
Several of us may need to ride the "Night Bus".... Will meet up at the bus stop.... Put out your thumb...
I borrowed my dad's flying carpet, do you need a ride?
Night bus is appropriate transportation, right?
"Perfect for a stroll to absolutely nowhere and meeting absolutely no one."
I felt that line.
"Floofs"
It's canon, now. They shall be forever known... as "floofs".
Turning witch hats into everyday fashion is something I am fully ready for. Lets go!
As a larper, I can say with confidence that my huge felted wool witch hat is the most immediately recognizable and most complimented-upon part of my garb wardrobe. So yes, make witch hats in vogue, everyone loves them.
a larper XDD those rp peopling
Hell is probably a production line of victorian hand sewn velvet sleeves for all eternity XD
😦😦😦 noO
Worse than than would be picking the black stitches back out of the black fabric.
@@nancymontgomery8897 This...and the battery ran out of your seam ripper with a light
@@meacadwell My seam ripper never had a light, but Bernadette is even lower tech. She lifts the stitch with a pin, snips it with a scissors, and pulls it out. Imagine the tedium of doing that over yards of fabric. I'd probably go cross-eyed.
@@nancymontgomery8897 I guess I didn't realize she did that.
My head just exploded!
The snip of the scissors at 1:36 was amazingly timed, filmed and satisfying. I know you've mentioned that you've been doing courses on cinematography and the like, and I can see how the effort and attention to detail is paying off for you ☺
Bernadette, you are too much!! I adore your taste in fabrics, your impeccable stitching, and your colorful narrations ( perfect for going nowhere and meeting no one...insane!!!) OMG!! We watch your videos over and over!!
Other name "Bernadette torturing herself with velvet ... again" 😂
"We are all comfortably insane now" - quote of the year!
So now you have a dress witch hat and an everyday witch hat.
Dear Bernadette: I'm a musician and would like to give you some music that I've written to you to use in your videos. I am such a fan of your work and you inspire me so much in my life. Do you have a business email that I can send this to for your consideration?
crystal kirlia her business email is in the description!
ooo i’d love to see some fan music in the video
This would be so lovely to experience!
This sounds like a lovely opportunity! I look forward to hearing your music if she chooses to work with you!
What a beautiful gift to share!
Bernadette: "We ride at dawn, friends."
Me: WHERE IS MY BROOMSTICK?!!!
Can't find mine either. Had to borrow mom's vacuum lol.
Why do I think Bernadette is an ACTUAL witch?
Like... The vibes, the style... everything. She's just so magical
"we ride at dawn, friends" I'll bring snacks!
May I bring a large thermos of hot water so we can share coffee and tea when we'll take a break from riding our brooms ?
The sound of the scissors cutting the fabric is so satisfying to me.
This is perfect winter hat! I absolutely adore that it matches with your cape, and let's not forget, the Bernadette oxfords, I see a pattern here :) With a walking skirt it will look like a beautiful outfit.
Your commentary on life makes everything so much more enjoyable!
I want to appreciate the effort you put into your subtitles. "Sewing Machine ASMR Time" and (wee snip) brought me great joy.
I finally understand the dozens of garments in my life I spent so much time in petting myself in an upwards direction and wondering why anyone would think the wearer would rather pet themself in such a fashion - they didn’t want them to be shiny. FOOLS! I long to be SHINY as well as soft!!!
You've really made the aesthetics of the video feel very autumnal.
I think your Singer is "clunking" which, should it be true and you care, may be the rubber bushing between the finger of the hand crank and the fly wheel. It can be replaced or left in place and covered with leather or fabric and just needs to wrap around it to prevent some of the slop in the mechanism that occurs when the speed of the hand crank varies.
Wow, will you listen to my machine too please?!! 😃
@@penelopefp I'm not a sewing machine whisperer 😂 Entirely by fluke I think I recognise the sound from my own 1910 Singer. There was something off about "chatter-chatter-chatter-clunk". Afterall, the engineering of these older machines is so beautifully functional and elogant one wouldn't expect such an off-putting sound. That said, if you want me to listen to your machine, I'm all ears!
Haha! Comfortably insane is very accurate! Eeeep! What if Cesario had a little matching witch hat-? aaaah I’d die of happiness. 😍🥰😘
Oh myyyy... that hand turned machine!!!! What a relic piece of history! And candelabra lights... both makes the perfect setting for the craftsman of this witch hat that came out wonderful. “We ride at dawn friends!” Oh yaaaa! 🧹
Love that smile!! You morph from serious and intense to playful and giggly in naught-point-one second!
Everyone needs a LBH - Little Black Hat. 🧙♀️
Hats are an excellent fashion accessory. When my grandmothers were young, the wearing of hats as everyday fashion was very much a thing. We need to bring this back. I shall begin by making myself a Witchy Hat, a la Bernadette.
@@Luubelaar I know they had such lovely hats (& clothing) back in the 40's & 50's. I always wear a hat whenever I go out in the summertime.
I've got a natural olive complexion but in the summer's here in Australia are so bad that. I can get a nasty sunburn in the 5 minutes it takes me to walk down to the mail box & back.
I'd love to see Bernadette make a historical summer hat. But she's headed into the wrong season for that in NYC. Oh well maybe next summer........
I need a little blanch hat so bad
@@Luubelaar Yeah! 50s hats for women are so pretty! I wish more people would understand people's historical wardrobes.
@@sourlovee33_ While I think the fashions from the 40's are elegant. You just gotta love the 'New Look' that came from Dior after WWII.
I can't express how badly I want to own a nice and accurate recreation of this beautiful witch hat for spoopy season (the only true season) 🧹🎃🕯️🕸️🪦
Is that a good omens reference I'm seeing?
@@elenanojkovic2554 Tell the whole blessed world, why don't you? ;)
When one is allergic to lanolin, one learns to LIKE crushed velvet, or like to be a slave to the iron and velvet board. Personally, I vote the crushed velvet. And I love the description and physics of floof.
A beautiful hat, a beautiful creator, and a thoroughly entertaining video.
Thank you, and Blessed Be!
I absolutely love the closing dialogue!
We ride at dawn friends..is the greatest line ever.
When Bernadette says ‘we ride at dawn friends’ I immediately check the time zones to see when that is for me in the uk: ‘We Ride!!!’
I am loving the black on black on black! Such classic witch vibes.
The candelabra! I’m in awe of the whole candelabra bit, from lighting all the way to pealing up the wax. What a masterpiece!
This hat is beautiful and absolutely fashionable.
I love the snippy snippy sounds of the shears and the churning sounds of the machine. They’re quite soothing. Nothing can compare to the adorable little floofykins showing his precious face in the video, however.
That master piece of editing at 5:25 when the placement of the candelabra coincides with the changing of the music???? Chefs kiss
I got a cheap sewing machine to make Halloween costumes, hated the foot peddle, so I moved it by hand. After a week I gave up and ordered an actual hand crank sewing machine from 1879* from Etsy and it arrives tomorrow 😍 You've inspired me so much I want to make all my own clothes
*edit from previous date 1910s.
Hmmm. I have a newish machine which has a foot pedal but I have never used it. I prefer to set the machine at it's slowest and use the Start/Stop button. I, when I was a girl, used my mother's treadle singer. My Grandmother had a hand wheel one but I hated it as I didn't have both hands to deal with whatever I was sewing. I wouldn't go back. The only treadling I do now is on my spinning wheel, nice and slow and relaxing. A few years ago I could have bought one of those old sewing machines for £15 or even less but people seem to be charging ridiculous amounts for them now. I must go back to the market where I saw them. Maybe I could make a profit?!!
Your needlework is, of course, fantastic, but I wanted to compliment you on your editing. The way you timed your background music to end just as your scissors went SNIP! Impeccable!
Things like the lining up of the music with the cutting at 1:35 is why I absolutely adore your videos
This video never gets old. I am watching it for the sixth or seventh time and enjoying it again on multiple levels. Thank you, Bernadette, for this lovely time away from the difficulties of the world, and the instruction to make such a lovely and magical hat!
"We ride at dawn, friends." Best line ever. Love your videos; the editing is exemplary, the staging divine and your touches of humor ever surprising moments. Thanks so much for posting!
I was wondering how you got such a non-standard color/shape of a beeswax block for your threads! Clever, clever witchling!!
I now need one of these hats on my life. Or twenty. Something like that.
Everyone needs a LBH - Little Black Hat. 🧙♀️
If you look on SCUBA diving website for beeswax they come in little blocks like that. We use them to wax our drysuit zips and they're often cheap. A lot of them are yellow but I've seem paler ones too.
Me thinks I shall make 13. One for every moon ride we do lol
I got the sudden urge recently to buy a red cardigan and I managed to get hold of a really nice one secondhand, and when I was wearing it yesterday I realised the urge came from seeing you wearing one!
Bernadette has, I am convinced, single-handedly kept me both sane and human during these times of pestilence. These videos are the single most soothing and entertaining things that I have come across and I am immensely grateful for this.
I find your projects so inspiring, your videos aren’t just keeping me happy during quarantine, I’ve even started a sewing journey of my own! I’ve always wanted to make my own clothes because my style is so different from what can be found in the marketplace, and your videos have given me the confidence to give sewing a shot. Thank you so much Bernadette!
You and me both. Without these videos, I wouldn't have known where to start and I'd probably still not be doing more than button and hems. Since June, I've made 3 skirts and am now working on my 2nd pair of pyjamas. (Among other things.) But I must put my sewing away once I've finished this pair. The flat looks a complete mess and I really need to get some housework done instead.
Give it a go - you've got little to lose and a whole lot to gain. Start simple, watch loads of how to videos and you'll soon be surprising yourself with what you can make for yourself.
your channel is so comforting. there’s a calmness about you and the way you speak and edit that makes your videos peaceful to watch.
Another beautiful result! It suits you down to the ground. Sidenote: it delighted me to see that you save the beeswax candle overspill (is that even a word? Eh). Fiendishly useful stuff, which I also use for my beadweaving thread. 'Waste not, want not' is something I feel to the marrow of my bones.
Waste not, want not. And add more bows
And boring me, use the wax for dresser drawer runners! I'm just way too practical.....
"We're all comfortably insane now." is such a MOOD.
I do so enjoy your turns of phrase! "These times of pestilence" The hat is lovely.
Best hat design! I love the small brim, and tie back ear flaps. Keeping the true cone is what amplifies. Many witch hats popularized by a consumer market twist or bend the cone. Nice design witch!
"It's okay, because we are all comfortably insane now." (BANNER, 2020)
BUMPER STICKERS AND BADGES!!!!!
Those wee bird snips that literally everyone seems to have..... Surprised everyone didn't hear my delighted squeee when I found those wee bird snips shaped (and colored) like a flamingo👍
I've found some that are very similar but shaped like a cat! I've put them on my Christmas list :)
So cool! Mine are a unicorn.
I have very boring bright green plastic snips, but at least they're easy to spot!
Oh my! My daughter would love those. She’s obsessed with flamingos. Do you mind me asking where you found them?
Hobby Lobby is where I found mine, but Amazon may have 'em too
"things were beginning to get real thick at this point..."
Me too, ear flap, me too
Shout out to that shot of Caesario for looking like something straight out of a nature documentary
And yet again, Bernadette Banner is blessing the Internet with another piece of pure ~ aesthetic ~ education, a best of the vocabulary of the beautiful English language und just overall good old witchy vibes.
Let's bless her in return.
As a dedicated non early riser, could we make it we ride after elevenses?
Do brooms come with cup-holders?
Wait... business-idea!!!!
@@stevezytveld6585 and now I am hungry... at 23.15... sigh.
I see I've found my kindred! I second the motion for post Elevensies riding, provided there is a break for afternoon tea!
@@TheRealKissyRee Absolutely!
You are all my people.
bernadette i don;t know if you realised i needed this because i was feeling so angry and then watched this and immediately calmed right down so thank you for calming me down enough to not do anything rash.
It's so cute, mysterious, and elegant at the same time! A perfectly Bernadette hat.
Not to be dramatic, but if my witch hat isn't wide brimmed and slouchy enough that you can tell at a glance I'll be showing up to the seance 15min late with starbucks then *what* is the *point* ?
Loving your academic vibe tho - your hats are so cute!! 🥰 Great job!
Oh, you want a broad brim? Please sew this broad-brimmed pattern with slight conical slope (but add Bernadette’s pointy top) and post pictures! 🥺 I’m out of interfacing and need to live vicariously.
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Seance ?
God, the sound of shears through fabric is just so magical. 💝
Hurray! Witch hats like these should be more popular!
We can make them popular. People always want to look different and if someone asks, it is the "new" fashion, which it is in a way?
Lets make them popular!
Now I have got to make a fun witch hat to wear all fall and winter. They will think I’m nuts unit who cares. Me being me.
Yes. You do you, and nothing else matters. 🎉
But how about this hat pattern with a yuletide twist? Hmmm... Green velvet, floof trim, evergreen decorations circling the crown?
Since we’re all comfortably insane from the isolation by now, the fact that many of us have occupied our time with sewing projects made from what we had on hand or ordered online, this should be a very colourful motley crew.
Rhonda Crosswhite, I have a meme I love using that says, “When you find people who not only tolerate your quirks, but celebrate them with glad cries of ‘Me too!’, be sure to cherish them. Because those weirdos are your tribe.”
I think we make a pretty cool tribe.
Go for it!! I'm debating just which other clothes I need, bc I feel like this would look weird with a bulky jack Wolfskin jacket.. guess i finally need to make the ADCape?
I've realized that I rarely I comment on youtube videos because I think of the comment section of any youtube channel as a horrid, wretched place. No matter how delightful and positive the video is. It would seem that my mindset has, thus far, prevented me from saying positive things in the comments of lovely videos that brought me a good bit of joy. So I shall endeavor to change that poor habit today, by leaving a nice yet entirely truthful comment.
This video was delightful, as are all of your videos Bernadette. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this process with us, and lifting my spirits in these dark times. I might even actually try to make a hat like this for myself though- with quarantine depression being what it is- I cannot promise anything.
Sometimes I try to push through and just make a start and sometimes I can get enough enthusiasm going to finish projects. I’m in that process now. This epidemic HAS been a sad time for many, including me... I feel for you.
Perhaps make a paper version first ? Not sewn, just glued ? Or use tabs and that way if it comes out well, & you are happy with the fit, you can use it to trace out on cloth ?!
You have a way of captivating an audience. Particularly me! I said to myself. I wasn’t going to watch the whole video. Generally I’m always double tapping videos to move it along. But not with your videos. I can honestly watch you work all day I think. Thank you for making your content. Honestly it’s a pleasure to watch!
I love the touch with the candles. Showing us that this was truly a labour of love. Thank you.
Everyone who doesn’t have the subtitles on is severely Missing Out
This has absolutely nothing to do with your comment, but can I just say I love your profile picture?
thank you friend! I quite like it as well
Thank you for pointing this out, it really has improved my experience!
I don't get it... Tbh. I had them on but... What?
@@leonamay8776 Oh, they're just extremely well done.